Organizer Quotes

• I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

  Cesar Chavez

  Leadership, Hard Work, Talking

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• An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.

  Fred Ross

  People, Leader, Doe

  Fred Ross, Sr. “Axioms for Organizers: Trailblazer for Social Justice”, Fred Ross, Sr.

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• True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

  Saul Alinsky

  Cutting, Hair, Radicalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Despair, Social

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• Right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.

  Mitt Romney

  Careers, Community, Helping

  "Romney Defends Bain Record, Hits Obama on Economy: ‘He Just Doesn’t Have a Clue’". swampland.time.com. May 23, 2012.

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• An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, Doe, Different

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• He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Inspirational, God, Usa

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, Running, Religious

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Pride, Together

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• As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, World, Rules For Radicals

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.19, Vintage

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• I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Science, Discovery, Important

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• A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

  Neil Strauss

  Keys, Busy, Social

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• I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Interesting, Tasks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.

  Carl Bereiter

  Government, Organization, Common Sense

  Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge

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• Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.

  Asaram

  Love, Brother, Sacrifice

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• America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

  Liz Cheney

  America, Community, Needs

  "Liz Cheney Slams Obama On Foreign Policy: 'America Needs A Commander In Chief, Not A Global Community Organizer'". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2009.

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• Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Struggle, Eight

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• The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.

  Robert Reich

  Political, Energy, Enthusiasm

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

  Donna Brazile

  Jesus, People, Community

  "Millions Insulted by Liberals' Use of Jesus Christ/Pontius Pilate Line". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 12, 2008.

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• They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Sheep, Shepherds, Would Be

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.60, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

  Ike Turner

  Teaching, Artist, People

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• I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

  Bobby Seale

  Community

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• The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

  Denis Fahey

  War, Order, Democracy

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